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Balance :: Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize..

Balance :: Balance (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

Libratory :: Libratory (a.) Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level..

Delphin :: Delphin (n.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

Equilibrate :: Equilibrate (v. t.) To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise..

Payse :: Payse (v. t.) To poise.

Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer..

Poiser :: Poiser (n.) The balancer of dipterous insects.

Steem :: Steelyard (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards..

Outpoise :: Outpoise (v. t.) To outweigh.

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.

Sea Pig :: Sea pig () A porpoise or dolphin.

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces..

Puffer :: Puffer (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise..

Dunter :: Dunter (n.) A porpoise.

Librate :: Librate (v. t.) To poise; to balance.

Poise :: Poise (n.) To weigh (down); to oppress.

Poise :: Poise (n.) To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

Poise :: Poise (v.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

Poise :: Poise (n.) To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh..

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